Farming

The 3-acre flower maze — like a corn maze, but no corn — provides a financial backstop for Hoolie Flats Farm, an organic vegetable farm in East Calais.

Seth and Kate Leach manage every step in milk production, from growing crops to making cheese, to overcome the modern challenge of “buying retail and selling wholesale."

While some farmers have had to stop using parts of their land, the overwhelming majority have continued farming.

Farmers at the Intervale Center in Burlington are reflecting on the 2023 floods, while also preparing for the future.

Vermont towns used to be required by law to provide welfare for local residents. That's where poor farms came in.

Travis Van Alstyne's new short film tells the story of Ascutney farmer Romaine Tenney, whose farm was seized by eminent domain in 1964 in order to build Interstate 91.

The trend of "No Mow May" follows the logic that leaving your whole lawn unmowed for the month can help pollinators. The birds, bugs and bees will use the overgrown weeds and flowers as food and shelter. Instead of doing this for a month then mowing it all down, consider dedicating a small portion of your yard to pollinators for the whole season.

A Hill Farmer's Story, this week's Made Here local documentary series premiere, tells the story of director Kathryn Youngdahl-Stauss' discovery of two early 20th-century diaries from Granville, Vermont.

The Made Here film Seeds of Change: Breaking Free from the Prison Food Machine follows an organic farmer in Maine who set out to transform the prison food system with an organic gardening program.

Vermont Public's Jenn Jarecki recently spoke with Dr. Kristin Haas, the state veterinarian and director at Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, about how to deal with pets on April 8.